Monday, January 23, 2012

LEGO SNES

It's not exactly a secret that I'm a bit fascinated by "LEGO artists"--especially those who enjoy recreating game characters and systems out of those colorful, interlocking bricks that most of us toyed with as kids.

For instance, late last year I published this post about a LEGO GameBoy Color, and before that I published about a million posts about Filip Johannes Felberg's LEGO Pokemon creations.

As awesome as all of the above are, I think the LEGO SNES below may be the most awesome of them all.



Of course, I say that in part because it's a damn near perfect recreation of Nintendo's 16-bit system and in part because it houses a real-life copy of the Quintet-developed, Enix-published RPG, Illusion of Gaia.

For more shots of this stunningly realistic piece of LEGO art--it even has a functioning eject button--check out this photo set by Flick user lego27bricks.

See also: Previous LEGO-focused posts

14 comments:

Adam said...

Wow it looks just like SNES. They did a great job

Bryan Ochalla said...

I agree, Adam! I can't believe how much it looks like the real thing. This artist's LEGO GameBoy Color is similarly impressive, by the way.

Viewtiful_Justin said...

Whoa. I really didn't notice it wasn't real until I read the title. How strange and wonderful! And...Illusion of Gaia? One of my FAVORITES!

Bryan Ochalla said...

At first glance it is *awfully* realistic, isn't Justin. Just amazing. As for Illusion of Gaia: God, I haven't played it in AGES!

Kaze said...

Yay Illusion of Gaia! I've had the itch to play play it's spiritual predecessor Soul Blazer a bit lately.

Sean said...

That really is impressive. The level of detail is quite amazing. When I was a kid I had a ton of lego but could never really make anything that....looked like anything other than a big random pile of lego. My projects were usually about size, I could make the pile tall or wide, but I didn`t have enough to do both at the same time.

Bryan Ochalla said...

Kaze: I don't think I've ever played Soul Blazer. Is it good, too? Guess I'll have to check it out...

Bryan Ochalla said...

Sean: My childhood experiences with Lego blocks are much like yours: I generally made, well, "things" out of them. Things that rarely looked like what I wanted them to look like. Houses seemed to be the most successful, if I'm remembering correctly...

Marco Grande Arbitro said...

a question: But "Illusion of Gaia" to do with Terranigma? Bryan Terranigma you know?

Bryan Ochalla said...

Hey there, Marco! Yes, I know about Terranigma, although I've sadly never played it. As for what that game has to do with Illusion of Gaia: Basically, Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia and Terranigma were developed by Quintet and are supposed to form a trilogy of sorts, although I don't think they're directly related to one another. (Hopefully someone with more knowledge of these games will correct me if I'm wrong!)

Marco Grande Arbitro said...

Thanks for the information!
You know that I was lucky enough to play and finish Terranigma for the Nes. It took me two years, because he was a kid.
Fortunately, the game came in 1996. I'm sorry you could not play.
But I was never able to play throughout the trilogy complete.
Thanks again the tip!

Bryan Ochalla said...

You're very welcome, Marco!

Billy said...

Straight to my facebook.

Bryan Ochalla said...

Glad you liked it, Billy. And thank you for visiting my blog.